Thanks to both old friend Linda and new friend Patrick for these two tags. The topics are so closely related for me that I can’t really separate them. A couple of these are quotes, but I’ll leave them unattributed as brain teasers.

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1) For every person in the world, there exists one perfect book waiting to be found.

2) It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

3) It’s important to know what the t-shirt you’re wearing is really saying.

4) Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

5) A monkey with a computer is still a monkey.

6) And perhaps this sums it all up for me:

For the Children

The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
the steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.

In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.

To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:

stay together
learn the flowers
go light

— Gary Snyder

Tagged, with absolute permission to decline (I abhor chain letters), for both or either the Passion Quilt (follow Linda’s link for rules) and This I Believe (Patrick’s):

Joe Henderson

H.

Bill Farren

Mr. Chase

S.C. Morgan